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Benjamin Wright retweeted
Stop the “Texas election was stolen” bit. The election will be certified by the Republican Abbott hand picked to be Secretary of State, under the oversight of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton. There will be no intervention by the U.S. Attorney General appointed by President Trump.
Benjamin Wright retweeted
Texas is the fastest team to go from AP #1 to unranked since last season’s Texas team.
Benjamin Wright retweeted
In a different day and time, where one might hope it would provoke in people some somber reflection upon the fragility of life, the atrocity of murder, and the inevitability of judgment, there might be some value found in public execution.
Benjamin Wright retweeted
Pray for the country of Panama after today’s earthquake. Damage is reported in Veraguas, Herrera & Los Santos. We’re in contact with Baptist partners as local church leaders assess needs. Pray for hurting families & for churches caring for their neighbors. #PrayForPanama @IMB_SBC
Benjamin Wright retweeted
A sense of humanity informed by biblical hamartiology—not dispensationalism—is what makes me strongly disagree with you on that.
Benjamin Wright retweeted
Apparently some of you believe Jewish people are a distinct class of sinners, worse than all others—collectively guilty as the sinister agents behind literally every major social and political problem conservatives care about.
Benjamin Wright retweeted
Former abortionist Abby Johnson on Lindsay Clancy:
"We have become extraordinarily practiced at looking at a dead child and asking first what his or her mother was going through.
And abortion taught us how to do that.
For decades, the defense of abortion has depended on shifting the moral center of the story away from the human being who dies and toward the human being experiencing the crisis. The mother’s suffering becomes the justification. But suffering does not make killing good,” Johnson wrote....
Johnson argued that culture has spent more than 50 years training itself to begin with a mother’s fear, financial stress, lack of support or depression until the child’s humanity nearly disappears—first in abortion and now in cases like this one."
Benjamin Wright retweeted
I would probably say the IMB missionary risking his or her life in a closed country, whose name you won't know until Heaven.
Benjamin Wright retweeted
I own stock in a company with $40 trillion in debt that loses $2 trillion a year on top of that.
Want to guess what that dividend looks like?
Dear Lord.
I own some stock. When the company makes a profit, I share in that profit by receiving a dividend check.
American citizens own stock in America. When it makes a profit from tariffs or the natural resources that belong to all of us, why shouldn't we share in that profit?
It took a businessman president to see things this way. It would never have occurred to a typical politician.
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The U.S. government runs persistent deficits of $1.8-2.1 trillion annually with no net profits. Tariffs generate ~$195-300 billion yearly but act as taxes on U.S. importers and consumers; resource royalties total ~$14.6 billion and are already allocated.
taxfoundation.org/blog/tariff-di…
crfb.org/issue-area/bud…
Benjamin Wright retweeted
Al Mohler (2011): “Anti-blasphemy laws place the power of theological coercion into the hands of the state, and this is deadly dangerous…. It is wrong to give governments the power of theological coercion. “ albertmohler.com/2011/01/05/…
Benjamin Wright retweeted
Grateful for our brother @james_d_baird here. It always serves Baptists well when Presbyterians so explicitly tell on themselves.
That a Presbyterian would essentially flatten redemptive history (two admins, one substance of CoG) is no surprise to a thoughtful Presbyterian (but is to many self-professing “Reformed Baptists”).
But it helps Baptists clearly see: Oh! His magisterial logic follows his paedobaptistic logic! 🤔
Okay then. I have a choice: As a Baptist, I can follow James into his Magisterial vision and give up my Baptist distinctives, or I can stay Baptist but not follow James into Magisterial Protestantism.”
(While still affirming plenty of good in his system)
Sorry, James. Grateful for you and your ministry, dear bro (and your new baby! 💪🏻🙌🏻). But I’m gonna Baptist even harder. 😆
Benjamin Wright retweeted
Absolutely agree. And you also can't build a healthy, fruitful ministry without discernment.
Discernment is like an immune system. You'll die if yours stops working and won't attack disease, but you'll also die if it starts overworking and thinks everything is a disease.
Benjamin Wright retweeted
Writers who submit AI-written pieces without divulging beforehand they are AI-written should be banned by that publication, not defended.
Benjamin Wright retweeted
Southern Baptists’ @sendrelief is already responding through local churches to the devastating #Nepal #FloodCrisis. Here’s how you can join the effort: sendrelief.org/project/nepal…
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Charted: How Economic Power Shifted Over 200 Years 📈
visualcapitalist.com/how-eco…
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“And not surprisingly, the dominant media has barely covered this today,” says @MarkHalperin about Anthony Fauci. “And when they did, they didn’t do what I would have done if I were writing the story— I would have quoted people like @MeghanMcCain expressing their concern. It’s not just about Ron Johnson versus Tony Fauci, it’s about the feelings of a lot of women who lost children.” @RonJohnsonWI @nih @LarryOConnor @yemisi @2waytvapp
